European Square (Kiev)

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Coordinates: 50°27′8″N, 30°31′39″E

In 1932 the square was called Third International's Square.

Ukrainian House (Ukrayinskyi Dim) conference and exhibitions hall; built in tne end of the 1970s as a Lenin Museum.

Modern European Square in Winter.

Yevropeyska Square (Ukrainian: Європейська Площа, Yevropeys’ka Ploscha, literally: European Square) is a square situated at the north-eastern end of Kiev's famous Khreschatyk street. The square was known under at least 9 different names during the last two hundred years.

[edit] Former Names

• Originally, the square was called the Horse’s Square (Kinna Ploscha in Ukrainian or Konnaya Ploschad in Russian), because its location was used for horse trading.
• After the 1805-1806 construction of the first theater in Kiev by the architect A. Melensky that was located at the current place of Ukrainian House the square used to be called Theatre Square (Theatral'na Ploscha in Ukrainian or Teatralnaya Ploschad in Russian).
• In 1851, when the Yevropeysky Hotel was built to the designs of the architect Beretti, the square was officially renamed to European Square (Yevropeys’ka Ploscha in Ukrainian, Yevropeyskaya Ploschad in Russian), the name that was returned to it in the post-Soviet times.
• Between 1869 and 1919 the square was called Tsar Square (Tsars’ka Ploscha in Ukrainian and Tsarskaya Ploschad in Russian), due to the monument of Alexander II of Russia erected there. During that time the square could also be referred to as Oleksandrovs’ka or Aleksandrovskaya for the same reason.
• In the Soviet times the square was renamed to the Third International's Square.
• In 1944 the square was renamed Stalin Square.
• And in 1961, the square was named Ploscha Leninskoho Komsomolu or the Lenin's Komsomol Square.

[edit] Attractions

• Hotel Dnipro
• UNIAN news agency building
• Ukrainian House (Ukrayinskyi Dim) conference and exhibitions hall built in the end of the 1970s as a Lenin Museum
• Kiev Philarhmony (building nineteenth century)
• Parliamentary Library of Ukraine

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